Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-21
DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE

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spoke of Tie Triangle, they Alluded 10
F,E,aheth Isabelle and Ilizette Brown, These
,.i,, ,,,..r., not ,,l,+.d but they were INSOFAR
ah,a f-;opds md had vowed lasting friend
sh;r Tbs similarity of their names had at
first attracted them to each other, and then
conn,on resolution had cemented the alli
ance They had discovered that each one had
nronised herself a noble and individual ca
raar and that each had for herself decided
unonsthe conditions necessary if the career
was IN ba n success, And their decisions had
h..ar the Same
An three before coming to the college had
determined never to marry.
Marriage does not interfere with mans
devotion 10 a pursuit, because he can drive,
as il were. tandem, and put his wife behind,
but woman finds herself in double harness
at the best. So Isabelle Illustrated the posi-
ton, and the Others agreed with her. But
inst here came their one disagreement Eliza
beth was the daughter of a Fourierite father,
and of a mother who was devout church
woman. All through her childhood Eliza
beth heard discussions upon the right of men
to the best conditions of life; and Utopia
where all would labor and none slave, where
all should sow and all reap, was ever pic
tured TO her mind. and she knew the his
tories and the plans of communities as other
children know FARMLAND Alongside of this
humanitarian education, her mother led her
through the church Sunday after Sunday,
season after season.
When she came into young womanhood
her heart was filed with pity for the suffer
ing and her head busy with plans of succor
Tor them. She fancied that philanthropic
schemes failed unless they were animated by
burning emotion whlcL would conquer in
dividual selfishness and unite the people in
one purpose. This emotion, she felt, could
only be that of religion She dreamed OF
being Mother Ann, and leading her band
of the poor and the oppressed into the fertile
lands of the west where they would found Il
home Here people were TO be as austere as
the Puritans, as brave as the cavaliers, and
life was TO he beauty, health and high self
denial, and it was to prosper
In order 10 train herself IN habltS OF opedl-
ance and TO study the system OF command,
she meant when she left college TO enter a
sisterhood for four years, and then to begin
10 prepare for her life work I'D detail
Isabelle was an enthusiast in another direc-
tion. She had passion for music, and she
intended to prove that women could be great
composers, and not ,''ereiy interpreters. She
was already skilled IN several instruments,
ard had studied composition and very MANY
Of the great scores. Her ;larents, however,
were opposed to her plan of beginning her
musical career in ar orchestra, but thew had
consented t, allow her 20 study in Germany
if she woull first 90 through an American
college; and so she was at Sappho
Iizette expected 20 he an artist, and was
going TO Europa after she graduated
Their disbursement turned on the mean,
necessary 10 lake Il they would eseane III.
mares and tolls of love. and being won b,
it into slavery. Ehzah4th said that if one5t
heart were thoroughly and sincerely dedi
Gated. the head would have no difficulty il
governing it. Il shall solemnly promise nv
self that | will neither love nor marry sh
said: and after | shall vow this, my vii
is strong, and | shall keep nv VOW"
'Mv will Isabelle declared. twill b
ranged on the side of nv work. shall low
my art, and have no place for any othe
passion 1t will fill nv life.r
Lizette, who was pretty and had ha,
cousins, was afraid Of her heart ut is
potent power." she affirmed Hand shall XII
mine. After that there will be no danger
and l shall be safe
When the Others laughed Mt her, and aske
how the murder was TO be done, she said sh
did not know, but safety lay through fir
and through fire she would go, for she meal
to ba free Then only could she dedicate ht
life completely.
Well, Elizabeth did enter the sisterhoc
for four years; she arose early, and went
rest late, and ate the bread OF piety and
dusery; and then, as the first step toward h
enterprise, she married missionary bisho
But she did not count herself a renegade
her cause. On the contrary, she assert'
that she had strengthened her hands, al
put herself in position where she had inf
ence and good help
But it saddened Lizette, who had be-
afraid Of love from the first, and she felt d
more doubtful Of the fortitude of women b
cause Isabelle too had married, and that On
six months after she had graduated Tt
young woman had sailed for Europe in go'
heart, bravely determined to accomplish {
work in which women have failed On {
voyage the steamer broke Its shaft, they m
q great storm, and Tor three days the pf
sengers were fastened down under the hate
ways. Her music and her emhitions we
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officer gong OUT TO JON Ills snip III the Me
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care OF her, ne AMUSED heF' ne Almost nurs
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danger, so anxious was he to make her COZ
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gone down, he would have seen that $
descended with pillow under her head a
ablanket over her feet, When they reach
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